Carnival Camp

I have just got home from a wonderful Carnival Camp at Green Pastures - the 41st! Tired yes... but rejoicing in the Lord.

This years theme was 'spirituality', focusing on the essential nature of our daily devotional times with God and the positive affects this has on our daily Christian lives. I preached in 3 of the 7 services and Wostenes and Gleydice, from Campina Grande, ministered at the others. On Monday and Tuesday they answered questions informally in the mornings with Wostenes preaching one night and Gleydice the other. Many came forward at the end of the services reconsecrating their lives to God and committing themselves to spending more time privately with God in prayer, fasting, worship and Bible meditation.

The praise and worship was greatly blessed as always. Our church band is extremely good. We just need to work more on the up and coming generations of musicians and band members and have kicked off initiatives to get a 'kids band' and a 'teens band' going for God. 

The leisure side of the Camp went beautifully too. Our sincerest thanks to those who contributed to making it possible for poorer folk/families to be there. These were very important inputs into their lives spiritually and fellowship-wise too. The youth ran a games afternoon one day and Philip ran another, what we used to call years ago - 'opportunity knocks', which I seem to have heard is called 'X Factor' today. Not that there is any element of competition in our version. It's nice just to see up and coming talent and to show there is space for everyone. The menu was varied from little children to seniors. One group of 3 brothers - one a fireman and all fathers - ended up being nominated the 'BeeGees' owing to their popularity!

Then there were constant domino competitions throughout the camp, table tennis, volleyball and swimming. So praise God for a  lovely balanced and bless Camp and thanks very much for all your prayers and support.